"Sustainable Consumption: Key Issues provides a concise introduction to the field of sustainable consumption, outlining the contribution of the key disciplines in this multi-disciplinary area, and detailing the way in which both the problem and the potential for solutions are un…
"Tracing a host of topics relating to consumption, this book describes and analyzes the rise of mass fashion dress, changing fashions in clothing, the transcultural significance of tulip consumption, the rise of print advertising, the use of food as a marker of elite status, and…
Introduction: turning toward things: accumulation, attachment, and agency -- The dreams stuff is made of: attaching to inanimate objects -- On target: aura, affect, and the rhetoric of design democracy -- Some assembly required: IKEA, project value, and what happens when things …
"Rampant consumerism has inundated our planet with pollution and waste, yet attempts to create environmentally friendly forms of consumption are often co-opted by corporations. Christine Harold investigates the attachments we form to the objects we buy, keep, and discard, explor…
Materials ancillary to the "debate" or exchanges between Richard M. Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev at the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959
A war refined: reframing the narrative of the Vietnam War -- Same side, different wars: grunts and REMFs in Vietnam -- This place just isn't John Wayne: U.S. military bases in Vietnam -- Total war on boredom: the U.S. military's recreation program in Vietnam -- The things they b…
This title reveals the complex world of consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe, exploring the ways people shopped, ate, drank smoked, cooked, acquired, assessed and exchanged goods
"Communism Unwrapped reveals the complex world of consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe, exploring the ways people shopped, ate, drank, smoked, cooked, acquired, assessed, and exchanged goods. These everyday experiences, the editors and contributors argue, were central to the w…
Geographies of meat: politics, economy and culture
Theorising the ethical consumer -- Analysing consumption : toward an integrated approach -- Ethical consumption and critical realism -- Ethical consumption as a reflexive life project -- Studying the ethical consumer -- Studying consumption : a realist approach -- Meeting the et…
A chronicle of marijuana's journey toward and away from legalization examines how grassroots activists from the 1970s nearly secured its decriminalization before conservative parents and the Reagan administration transformed cannabis into a focus for the war on drugs. "In the l…
"Tea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. Over centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its cultivation brought about massive changes--in land use, labor systems, market practices, and social hierarchies--the eff…
"Material culture, the 'stuff' of everyday life, is deeply entwined with cultural values and the politics of identity. Material culture is widely studied across different disciplines and represents some of the most cutting-edge scholarship. However, until now there has been no c…